All I can say is WOW! I mean on the big scale of things I only have a stock suspensionsed 305 TBI 91 RS but before this I was driving the parents 1998 Chrysler Breeze. This car is nicer in every matter. AND I think my car is getting better gas milage than the breeze(4cyl) on the highway! I added some tranny fluid(1L ATF) to the oil and naptha/petroleum distolate to the fuel system yesterday and drove her out to sarnia and back to waste some gas and clean the system. 230kms and I'm only done have a tank and I drove back from sarnia in drive and was getting on it most of the way cause I don't wanna keep all that stuff sitting in my system for very long. I actually just bought a can of 1L camping fluid(naptha) and an inj system cleaner for the petroleum distolate. Probably going to change the oil on monday and repeat again a couple times before I etest. Just out of curiosity do you think running some thicker oil such as lucas + 15w40 will help my passing testing also? I really dont think I'll have a problem but my car was pretty ill maintained and I'm just trying to make sure ya know.

Anyway these cars are a blast to drive. It's not really all that quick, its only an L03, but the ride is a ton of fun. I never thought I was going to get one of these cars and be so pleased before I ever really touched the thing mod wise.

OH! and got my first compliment the very first time I actually took it out and parked it when I went to the mall yesterday too

 

305 TBI... the gas mileage king.. yeah on highway it eats very little gas. Combination of 2.73 gears, advance timing and a lean mode for highway use and you can possibly break the 600 km/tank on highway... I know I used to before the gear swap.

 

Gas mileage?!? What's that? haha

I own 2 gas guzzlers and I'm heavy on the foot with my other car...going and buying stock in Sunoco as we speak!

 

yea I know its weird I post about gas milage but it was just really surprising and I was trying to get through the tank and it wasn't happening near as fast as I thought it would.

 

If you want to drain a tank fast on a TBI, just drive it around town... our city mileage is crap.

 

heheh after driving around for not even an hour I'm noticing quickly

 

wow, with my 350 tpi i drove to north bay, like 350kms, totally empty, and i mean totally, i was driving like 120 mos the way, but still, that is ****

 

i understand totally, my thirdgen gets better highway mileage than the 96 cavalier i used to drive, naptha? never herd of doing this can you explain a little further? whats the purpose?

 

Go take a look at 90% of the FI cleaners or Fuel system cleaners out there and check the ingredients... Naptha and Petroleum distolate. $4.99 for a 1L bottle of camping fuel aka Naptha and I just chose a motormaster fuel system cleaner for ~$3 that contained petroleum distolate. Threw the whole shebam in. This was semi experimental. I just remember reading somewhere this could be done. Ran through the full tank of gas as of yesterday and not a single problem. Changing the oil today.

Oh and not having cup holders.... yea it's driving me crazy already.

 

Mah, that takes some guts, especially with a new car!

On a side note, cheers for bombs = lower gas prices!

 

yea I was kinda iffy on doin it but really what's the worst it could do??? Kill my injectors or a seal is all really. It was mixed in with a full tank of gas. While I wont recommend anyone else doing this as I really dont know how safe it is the ingredients are the same as I mentioned earlier so... never know if ya dont try

 

Congrats Dude !!
Glad you like your new ride .........and they are fun to drive !!!!

 

I was rippin around the komoka/delaware area today. Was trying to safely find out how much it had in corners. Gets in there more than I would have ever hoped stock. Ended up at the track entrance of Delaware speedway around 4pm. The track gates were open and nobody was in sight. I really wanted to just rip around a couple laps real quick but there were some people there up near the front gates doing something so I chickened out. Figured if they're still running the autoX stuff johnny was talking about I can just run around there then. Guess I coulda made it around the track without being stopped a couple times but I dont know how kindly they take to people doing that. Maybe I should have... still had a fun day driving around the country anyway.

 

I think Shannonville has lap days in the summer which are relatively informal. Don't know how much it costs though - probably not that much.

 

I get 520kms to the tank all the time which isn't bad for 305 5speed...

 

u must drive like a 90 year old senior cuz i get no where near that lol

 

I got 520kms and raced 4 times at the track that week.. pulling off 14.5's to 14.7's until you know what 14.s are like Easy keep your yapper shut!!

Its all in the tuning man!

 

....ya..... and I will be pestering ya about it

......BTW I am getting about 450km with 3.08's ......what you got again Stiffmeister

 

I don't even want to know my gas mileage.....3.73's are fun to have but the gas mileage is terrible on the highway, although in the city the gas mileage has improved.

After I put the higher stall convertor in, my gas mileage also dropped even further so I'm guessing I'm probably getting around 12 MPG.